Friday, March 15, 2013

"Ominous Threats" and Murderous Zeal

(A shorter version of this essay was originally published at LewRockwell.com)“There are, in
increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States
preparing for combat," warns an
unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times.
"They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often
motivated by religious zeal.”

The Times editorial collective
focused its indignation upon a much safer target -- namely, “white,
right-wing Americans, all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may
represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than
international terrorists.”

This steroid-enhanced militant doesn't bother the SPLC.

The statist screed makes passing reference to what
it calls “the massacre of a bizarre sect by federal agents in Waco, Texas,”
twenty years ago – without passing moral judgment on the “massacre” in
question.

Slaughtering religious eccentrics is a venial offense compared to the
grave heresy committed by those who speak ill of the Holy State, since their
"blather" -- not
the murderous actions of those who impudently presume to rule us, mind you --
"tends to get under the skin of the Timothy McVeighs of the world."
Once again: Immolating harmless people in a church is a perfectly proper thing,
assuming that this act of mass murder is carried out by the consecrated hands
of the State's enforcement caste, but referring
to it as mass murder is the sort of thing only an incipient terrorist would do.

Citing the most
recent missive from the self-appointed Stasi at the Southern Poverty Law
Center, the Times claims that there are 1,360 proto-terrorist groups --
sneeringly denounced as "patriots," "constitutionalists,"
and "sovereign citizens" -- scattered throughout the Soyuz. "These groups
should be closely monitored, with resources adequate to the task, even if it
means shifting some homeland security money from the hunt for foreign
terrorists," concludes the paper.

“On October 25, 1994, six months
before the Oklahoma City bombing, we wrote Attorney General Janet Reno about
the growing threat of domestic terrorism,” wrote SPLC President Richard Cohen to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano. “Today, we write to express similar concerns. In the last
four years, we have seen a tremendous increase in the number of
conspiracy-minded, antigovernment groups as well as in the number of domestic
terrorist plots. As in the period before the Oklahoma City bombing, we now also
are seeing ominous threats from those who believe that the government is poised
to take their guns.”

Where the depiction of "threats" is concerned, the SPLC is notorious for rendering models of T-Rex-scale monsters from small and undistinguished bone fragments -- witness the fact that one of the "militant" groups listed in its most recent index of domestic enemies is an anti-war knitting circle led by an ailing senior citizen.

“The
idea of fighting the federal government with an AR-15 … I know that is an idea
a lot of people have – if they ever look, as I have, at what the federal
defense budget is, I think they would disabuse themselves of that notion right
away.”

Allusively, but unmistakably, Rep. Slaughter was referring to the prospect of making war against the people of the united States -- which, as it happens, meets the specific constitutional definition of "treason." Only those who have lost interest in living, or who have acquired an interest in auto-erotic asphyxiation, would hold their breath awaiting SPLC's condemnation of the vulgar threat that emerged from the tax-devouring gullet of the appropriately named Rep. Slaughter.

Echoing the central theme of Cohen's letter to the Feds, SPLC
spokesman Mark Potok, “We are in a scary moment. It is very much reminiscent,
at least to me, of the months leading up to the Oklahoma City Bombing.” This is indeed quite ominous -- not because the SPLC has correctly gauged the public mood, mind you, but because the group was deeply involved in the Fed's PATCON false flag operation that precipitated the OKC bombing. The FBI spent the last decade running COINTELPRO-style provocation operations against American Muslims. There's every reason to suspect that they're busy seeding informants and provocateurs in every cohesive group of right-wing dissidents they can find.

The SPLC-derived Los Angeles Times editorial -- which could be
digested into the phrase, "The conspiracy theorists are plotting against
us!" -- brings to mind an incident in the early 1980s in which East German
officials arrested a group of human rights activists for "defaming"
the state by claiming that it suppressed freedom of speech. As Tony Cooper, an
instructor in terrorism negotiation at the University of Texas-Dallas, pointed
out in 1995, the Regime in Washington is perfectly capable of such totalitarian
behavior.

"I see the
formation of a curious crusading mentality among certain law enforcement
agencies to stamp out what they see as a threat to government generally,"
Cooper told the Washington Post
in 1995. "It's an exaggerated concern that they are facing a
nationwide conspiracy and that somehow this will get out of control unless it
is stamped out at a very early stage."

Never forget: A
"conspiracy theorist" is someone who notices things without official
permission -- and a "terrorist" is anybody who challenges the
government's monopoly on violence.

A quick note...

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Look for another story in this space later today (March 15) or perhaps early tomorrow.

It doesn't take a similar feat of ideological imagination to see something of an "ominous threat" in the following remarks from Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, a devoted opponent of civilian gun ownership, in an interview on Al Gore's cable network:

“The idea of fighting the federal government with an AR-15 … I know that is an idea a lot of people have – if they ever look, as I have, at what the federal defense budget is, I think they would disabuse themselves of that notion right away.”

I wonder if this ignoramus ever heard of Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan?

Didn't determined people in these places, many armed with decades old weapons, beat and/or fight to a standstill the mighty u. s. military?

I wept that day when the fires were set in Waco, Texas.Not just for the women and children who were burned alivebut also for myself and every other decent Texan.

Any notion of community or solidarity as a Texan went up in smoke as I watched the feds molest and murder with impunity in my beloved Texas, and those in Austin did not so much as lift a finger to prevent what we all saw coming.

I have never been so ashamed in my life. On that day,April 19, 1993, I realized that I was standing completely alone;that everything I was taught about America was absolute bullshit.

There's a palpable sense of impending violent conflict between We The People (discounting the socialized maroons of the welfare state) and the illegal, immoral BEAST that is pretending to represent "the supreme law of the land".

Unfortunately, The Bible tells us that we'll go through hell before we get to Heaven. (And Steve Miller tells us that too.)

I do utter those words to fellow Texans and the reaction is as youcan imagine: incredulity. Dishonoring the Alamo angers any Texanand for good reasons, but now that you have their attention andindignation, you can segue to the real issue of Waco. Most will take a moment of pause and understand, but majority of those willthen attempt to defend the outcome with state propaganda. I havelearned not to argue the details but to stand mute once the arggoes in that direction but simply leave it to them to ponder theirown argument that attempts to justify murdering defenseless womenand children. Some say it was an accident but that is baloney.

There is a video clip of Waco that is seldom seen and I have onlyseen it twice (it was actually shown on television here in Houstonjust after the debacle) and I cannot now find it. In the clip, the buildingis on fire and a young woman (20's) runs out of the front door with a look of horror on her face but she only gets about 30-50feet from the door and her attention is drawn to something beyondthe camera (which is recording the clip) and she stops dead in hertracks. She is looking in the direction of the camera and you can see the absolute terror on her face and the contortions ofexpression as she is in the throws of a life and death decision.She is standing still and then suddenly turnsaround and runs BACK INTO THE BURNING BUILDING.

What, in the name of God, could cause a youngwoman to flee a burning building but then turn around and run backinto it? Of course it would have to be a terror greater than theone she just fled. That terror is just off camera and you can seeher looking at it. The change of expression on her face is at firstan expression of relief of having escaped her death but then shefocuses on something beyond the camera and she stops running, herexpression becomes one of puzzlement as if she is being spoken toand she simply cannot believe what she is hearing, then her expressionchanges to absolute horror and she then turns around and runs backinto the building which has 50 ft. flames coming out of the roof.She was never seen again.

This video will tear your heart into pieces. If it doesn't, youare a lost sole and in danger of Hell fire. I weep even now justreciting it.

This is the state of affairs in the U.S. They have fired the cabin, now what?